{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-03T07:48:51.101Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"kansas","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"contextual","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":2,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2023-sedgwick-kansas-police-chief-flock-alpr-tracked-ex-girlfriend-and-new-boyfriend-certification-revoked","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'He used Flock cameras to check for his ex-girlfriend’s whereabouts 164 times from June 24 to Oct. 5, 2023, and her new boyfriend’s whereabouts 64 times from Aug. 11 to Oct. 10, 2023, according to the order from the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers’ Standards and Training that revoked his license.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'used Flock license plate readers to run his ex-girlfriend’s tags 164 times between June and October of 2023 and 64 times on her boyfriend’s tag.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the KSCPOST order, the Sedgwick police chief used Flock license-plate readers to check his ex-girlfriend's whereabouts 164 times from 24 June to 5 October 2023 and her new boyfriend's 64 times from 11 August to 10 October 2023.","causal_attribution":"KSCPOST order as reported by two outlets (one chain); the order itself was not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'and told her to get back to town,'; 'ultimately admitted that jealousy was involved in his decision to do so,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'used a police vehicle to follow his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend outside of city limits.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The order says he also used his police vehicle to follow the two outside Sedgwick and on other occasions to keep tabs on them, confronted the woman and told her to get back to town, and admitted that jealousy was involved after first citing drug issues.","causal_attribution":"KSCPOST order findings as quoted by the Eagle and KAKE."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'admitted to misusing Flock while he was being investigated for an unrelated misconduct case, a Sedgwick official said.'; 'won’t face any charges, but he did lose his police certification.'; 'He resigned Oct. 20, 2023.'; 'did not appear to be sufficient to warrant a criminal investigation'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'certification has been revoked after he used police investigation equipment to keep tabs on his ex-girlfriend.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The chief admitted the Flock misuse while under investigation for an unrelated misconduct case, resigned on 20 October 2023 and lost his police certification; the city administrator said the case did not appear sufficient to warrant a criminal investigation, and he was not charged.","causal_attribution":"City administrator's statements and the KSCPOST action as reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"a woman and her new boyfriend had their vehicles tracked 228 times through police license-plate readers by her ex-boyfriend, the town's police chief, who also followed them and confronted her","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article291059560.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-03 from the Internet Archive capture of 21 July 2026 (Wichita Eagle, 17 August 2024); the live site timed out. Reports the KSCPOST order and interviews the Sedgwick city administrator; the order itself was not read.","independence_group":"kscpost-order-sedgwick-chief"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.kake.com/home/sedgwick-police-chief-tracked-ex-girlfriend-164-times-using-license-plate-cams/article_21fdfdba-5dc5-11ef-95c4-8be8baa3f10c.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-03 from the Internet Archive capture of 6 September 2026 (KAKE, 18 August 2024 per the page metadata); the live site returned HTTP 429. Reports the same KSCPOST order.","independence_group":"kscpost-order-sedgwick-chief"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["Whether the ex-girlfriend or her boyfriend knew of the tracking at the time, and what effect it had on them; no statement from either is reported.","The unrelated misconduct that prompted the investigation (the city would not say).","The full text of the KSCPOST order."],"geography":{"basis":"The Sedgwick police department and its Flock cameras are in Sedgwick, Kansas, and the order says he followed the two outside Sedgwick (Wichita Eagle, KAKE). The action was a state commission order; no court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a contextual case (made_claim_about) consistent with earlier officer-misuse rows for Flock license-plate readers: a state commission order, reported by the Wichita Eagle and KAKE, found that a town police chief tracked his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend through Flock readers 228 times and followed them, and revoked his certification. The former chief, the woman and her boyfriend are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-03"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The KSCPOST revocation order, as reported by the Wichita Eagle and KAKE, says the chief used Flock license-plate readers to run his ex-girlfriend's tags 164 times and her new boyfriend's 64 times, and the city administrator told the Eagle that the chief admitted misusing Flock. The automated readers generated the vehicle-location records about the two people; the searches and the following are recorded as the chief's own acts.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Sedgwick, Kansas: the town's police chief ran his ex-girlfriend's plate through Flock license-plate readers 164 times and her new boyfriend's 64 times between June and October 2023 and followed them in his police vehicle, according to the state police-certification commission, which revoked his certification; he resigned in October 2023 and was not charged","summary":"According to an order of the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training (KSCPOST) reported by the Wichita Eagle and KAKE in August 2024, the police chief of Sedgwick, Kansas, used the city's Flock Safety license-plate readers to check his ex-girlfriend's whereabouts 164 times between 24 June and 5 October 2023 and her new boyfriend's 64 times between 11 August and 10 October 2023, logging reasons such as missing child and drug investigation. The order says he also used his police vehicle to follow the two of them outside Sedgwick and on other occasions to keep tabs on them, and that he confronted the woman and told her to get back to town. He first said he was following them because of drug issues but admitted that jealousy was involved. He was placed on leave in October 2023 over unrelated misconduct allegations, admitted the Flock misuse during that investigation, and resigned on 20 October 2023. KSCPOST revoked his certification. The city administrator said the case did not appear sufficient for a criminal investigation, and no charges were filed. The city later cut back its Flock cameras.","incidentDate":"2023-06-24","incidentEndDate":"2023-10-10","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2024-08-17","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate readers operated by the Sedgwick, Kansas, police department, which the chief searched for the plates of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the state police-certification commission's order, a police chief tracked his ex-girlfriend's and her new boyfriend's vehicles through Flock license-plate readers 228 times between June and October 2023, followed them in his police vehicle and confronted the woman (Wichita Eagle, KAKE).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people: the ex-girlfriend (164 plate searches) and her new boyfriend (64 plate searches), both followed in the police vehicle, per the KSCPOST order as reported by the Wichita Eagle and KAKE. Exact 2.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-KS","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article291059560.html","primarySourceLabel":"Wichita Eagle, 17 August 2024: Kansas police chief used Flock license plate cameras 164 times to track ex-girlfriend","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-03T03:24:28.947105+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-03T03:24:28.947105+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","police-misuse","stalking","kansas","sedgwick","certification-revoked","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2022-kechi-kansas-police-lieutenant-flock-alpr-stalked-estranged-wife-sentenced","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'took advantage of his position in the department to use the Flock License Plate Reader system to monitor his estranged wife’s location'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'unlawfully access WPD’s flock license plate reader technology to monitor where his estranged wife was located'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'This comes after a Kechi lieutenant’s arrest for illegally using the system to stalk his estranged wife.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The Kechi police lieutenant used his position to access the Wichita Police Department's Flock license-plate-reader system and monitor his estranged wife's location.","causal_attribution":"The DA's sentencing release and KWCH's arrest-stage report, five months apart, both state the Flock use; both ultimately rest on the Wichita police investigation. The guilty plea was to computer crime and stalking; the Flock detail is the prosecutor's and police account. Recorded as reported: the KWCH arrest report and the DA release both rest on the Wichita police investigation, so they are not independent support."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The former lieutenant of the Kechi Police Department pled guilty to computer crime and stalking, both misdemeanors.'; 'to a controlling term of 24 months in jail from which he was granted probation for 18 months'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'has been sentenced after pleading guilty to computer crime and stalking'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"On 5 April 2023 he pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking, both misdemeanors, and was sentenced to a controlling term of 24 months in jail, from which he was granted probation for 18 months.","causal_attribution":"The DA's announcement, relayed by KSN; no court record was inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'told a friend she was scared and thought'; 'was somehow tracking her whereabouts'; 'asked how someone could get a protection from stalking order'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'She confided in a friend that she was scared'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The woman had told a friend that she was scared and thought he was somehow tracking her whereabouts; the friend contacted a Wichita police officer and asked how someone could get a protection-from-stalking order.","causal_attribution":"The DA's account of the woman's statement to a friend; KSN relays the same release."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was arrested by Wichita police on October 26, 2022'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'has since been removed from the department'; 'for one count of stalking and one count of unlawful acts concerning computers'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Wichita police arrested him on 26 October 2022; he was booked on one count of stalking and one count of unlawful acts concerning computers and removed from the Kechi Police Department.","causal_attribution":"Arrest date from the DA release; booking counts and removal from KWCH's arrest report."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'license plate reading camera system to the entire Kechi Police Department, WPD Interim Chief Troy Livingston confirmed'; 'needing assigned supervisors from those agencies to review and approve data requests'; 'audit the system every week instead of every two weeks'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The Wichita Police Department revoked the entire Kechi Police Department's access to its Flock camera system, said it was reviewing its policies and procedures, such as requiring supervisors from other agencies to review and approve data requests, and said it would audit the system weekly instead of every two weeks.","causal_attribution":"The interim chief's statements to KWCH."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The commission also revoked certification for former Kechi police lieutenant'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards revoked the former lieutenant's law enforcement certification in August 2023.","causal_attribution":"KWCH's report of the commission action; no commission record was inspected."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Flock cameras on Oct. 23, 2022, to track his estranged wife’s movements from Sept. 23, 2022 until that day.'; 'texts, she felt she was being followed.'; 'The former Kechi officer used several different reasons for his search, which never got flagged.'; 'Those reasons, according to a court document, included “test” and “invest” and “investigation”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The Wichita Eagle, recapping the case in August 2024, reports that on 23 October 2022 the lieutenant used the Wichita police Flock cameras to track his estranged wife's movements from 23 September 2022 until that day, that he entered search reasons such as 'test' and 'investigation' that were never flagged, and that he was caught after she complained that, based on his texts, she felt she was being followed.","causal_attribution":"The Eagle's account citing a court document, which was not inspected; it is consistent with the DA release."}],"effects":[{"label":"location monitored by her estranged husband, a police lieutenant, through police license-plate-reader records","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"told a friend she was scared and thought she was being tracked","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.kwch.com/2023/04/05/former-kechi-police-lieutenant-convicted-stalking-charges/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-03 (KWCH, 5 April 2023). Relays the Sedgwick County District Attorney's release of the same day nearly verbatim; the release itself was read privately from an Internet Archive capture and is recorded in the private review notes.","independence_group":"sedgwick-da-release"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.kwch.com/2022/10/31/kechi-police-lieutenant-arrested-using-police-technology-stalk-wife/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-03 (live; byline Joe Baker; published 30 October 2022, 10:38 PM CDT). Arrest-stage report five months before the DA release; it does not attribute its account, which presumably comes from the arresting Wichita Police Department.","independence_group":"kwch-arrest-2022"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.kwch.com/2022/11/04/kechi-police-lieutenants-arrest-puts-flock-technology-under-scrutiny/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-03 (live; Shawn Loging and KWCH Staff; published 4 November 2022). On-record statements by the Wichita Police Department interim chief and a Flock Safety vice president.","independence_group":"kwch-wpd-interview-2022"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.ksn.com/news/crime/former-kechi-police-lieutenant-sentenced-in-stalking-case/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-03 from the Internet Archive capture of 13 April 2023 (live site answered 403). A rewrite of the DA's 5 April 2023 release (same facts and order), so grouped with it.","independence_group":"sedgwick-da-release"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.kwch.com/2023/08/31/certifications-revoked-former-wichita-pd-captain-kechi-pd-lieutenant/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-03 (live; KWCH Staff; published 30 August 2023). Reports the state commission's certification revocation; its sentencing details relay the DA release.","independence_group":"kwch-cpost-2023"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article291059560.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-03 from the Internet Archive capture of 21 July 2026 (Wichita Eagle, 17 August 2024, an article on a different Sedgwick police chief case that recaps the Kechi case citing a court document); the live site timed out.","independence_group":"eagle-2024-kechi-court-document"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["Which vehicle's plate reads were used to locate the woman.","Whether a protection-from-stalking order was obtained.","Whether Flock audit logs or the friend's report led to the discovery.","How many times the Flock system was queried."],"geography":{"basis":"The lieutenant served with the Kechi Police Department and used the Wichita Police Department's Flock system in Kansas; Wichita police made the arrest and the case was sentenced in Sedgwick County District Court, Kansas (DA release; KWCH). The woman's residence is not stated; affected_person_countries US rests on her location being monitored through the Wichita Police Department's Kansas camera system and on her friend's approach to a Wichita police officer about a protection-from-stalking order.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional privacy and safety case, consistent with the held Flock officer-misuse rows: the Sedgwick County District Attorney states that a police lieutenant used the Flock license-plate-reader system to monitor his estranged wife's location, KWCH's arrest report states the same, and he pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking. The automated readers generated the location records; the misuse is recorded as a human act. Neither the officer nor the woman is named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-03"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Sedgwick County District Attorney states that the lieutenant used the Flock License Plate Reader system to monitor his estranged wife's location, and KWCH's arrest report describes unlawful access to the Wichita Police Department's Flock license-plate-reader technology for that purpose; he pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking. The automated readers photograph the back of every passing car (Flock executive to KWCH); the plate-read records used to monitor the woman's whereabouts were the system's output, and the misuse was a human act. The sources do not describe the readers as AI.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Kechi, Kansas: a police lieutenant used the Wichita Police Department's Flock license-plate-reader system to monitor his estranged wife's location; arrested in October 2022, he pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking in April 2023","summary":"According to the Sedgwick County District Attorney, a lieutenant of the Kechi Police Department in Kansas took advantage of his position to use the Flock License Plate Reader system to monitor his estranged wife's location. The woman had told a friend that she was scared and thought he was somehow tracking her whereabouts, and the friend asked a Wichita police officer how someone could get a protection-from-stalking order. Wichita police arrested the lieutenant on 26 October 2022 and he was removed from the Kechi department. On 5 April 2023 he pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking, both misdemeanors, and was sentenced to a controlling term of 24 months in jail, with probation granted for 18 months. The Wichita Police Department, whose Flock system he had used, revoked the whole Kechi department's access and said it would audit the system weekly, and the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards revoked his certification in August 2023.","incidentDate":"2022-10-23","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2022-10-30","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader camera system operated by the Wichita Police Department, which the Kechi lieutenant accessed through his police position (DA release; KWCH)","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Sedgwick County District Attorney, the woman's location was monitored by her estranged husband, a police lieutenant, through the Flock license-plate-reader system, and she told a friend she was scared and thought he was tracking her; he pleaded guilty to stalking and computer crime.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the lieutenant's estranged wife, whose location was monitored (DA release; KWCH; KSN). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-KS","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.kwch.com/2023/04/05/former-kechi-police-lieutenant-convicted-stalking-charges/","primarySourceLabel":"KWCH, 5 April 2023: Former Kechi police lieutenant convicted on stalking charges (relays the Sedgwick County District Attorney's release)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-03T03:24:25.271533+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-03T03:24:25.271533+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","stalking","police-misuse","estranged-spouse","kansas","kechi","wichita","sedgwick-county","criminal-conviction","made-claim-about"]}]}